The Sheriff of Shinbone City (Charlotte Holmes #11)

The Yankee Quartet; Four Charlotte Holmes mysteries set in the United States during the 1920s.

Shinbone City, Kansas, USA, 1926Charlotte & Watan travel to the mid-west in response to a cry of help from her step-son, Cherokee Joe.
They find a city in the grip of a ruthless oil baron, Alice Seaton. Caught in the middle is Joe, charged with rape, whose lynching our heroes interrupt.
Displacing the corrupt Sheriff, Charlotte soon comes into conflict with the Seaton’s and the city folks beholden to the oil company. Whilst Charlotte strives to maintain law & order her son, George, falls in love with a native girl, but incurs the animosity of the Seatons, especially Bullwhip Billy.
As our heroes investigate further, revealing decades old injustices, Charlotte's and Randle's marriage comes under strain.
In India, Branwell is busy organizing the wedding of his daughter, Lauren, hosting the Holmes’ clan, mollifying his future in-laws and catching the poisoner intent on ruining it all.
Charlotte's motto 'truth will out' proves ruinously prophetic for her & Branwell.